Welcome to our brave new Britain: a nation that trembles before its buns

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The burning question of the day is: should we ban the bun? According to Sunday newspapers, local authorities “across the country” have banned schools from serving hot-cross buns this Easter, for fear that the symbol of the Cross might offend those of non-Christian faiths. As the great debate hots up, some authorities have proposed the compromise “let them eat naan bread”. But that could also prove offensive to believers in the new bible of the middle classes, Dr Atkins’s no-carbohydrate diet.

The overcooked scare about hot-cross buns follows reports about an infants’ school banning stories involving pigs, because they might